Pegasus safeguards planning for 50MW UK solar farm

• Project on a 100-hectare site in Nottinghamshire will continue complying with successful appeal

Preparation consent has actually been granted for the building and construction of a 50MW solar farm in Nottinghamshire, England, following an appeal.

Pegasus Group gave professional landscape, heritage and planning witness on behalf of customer JBM Solar Projects 6 Restricted at the public questions right into Newark & Sherwood District Council's refusal of the application.

The scheme is for a 49.9 MW solar farm on a website of roughly 100 hectares, north of Halloughton.

Pegasus Group executive supervisor Paul Burrell said: "This is a superb outcome for our client JBM Solar Projects 6 Limited, and also a genuine Pegasus Group teamwork.

" We gave landscape, heritage as well as planning witness along with full appeal project monitoring. And also as a jointly resourced workplace project, with our Cirencester office baiting planning and landscape while colleagues from the Leeds workplace baited heritage, it demonstrates how we effectively pool resources in order to offer a winning service."

Burrell stated that in his report the Inspector had made some intriguing observations on farming land and the short-lived loss of food manufacturing and food security, with weight to be offered to the short-lived nature of the development, albeit the 40 years sought would be longer than a generation.

He said that the inspector concluded, in terms of the preparation equilibrium, that while there would be some localized injury to landscape personality and also some aesthetic harm in conflict with the relevant growth strategy policies, the important to take on climate adjustment as acknowledged in regulation as well as energy policy, and also the really considerable advantages of the plan, clearly as well as decisively surpassed the limited harm.

Also, in terms of heritage, while acknowledging the excellent weight required to be connected to the conservation of heritage assets, he took into consideration that the important to deal with climate modification, as identified in regulations and energy policy, and the really considerable advantages of the scheme, "clearly as well as decisively" surpassed the short-lived and also less than considerable injury to the heritage possessions included.

In allowing the appeal, authorization is approved for the building of solar farm and also battery stations together with all linked works, devices, and required facilities.